· Private foundation
Crittenden Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRIPLE HELIX INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE | $36,000 |
| CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION | $33,000 |
| CUSTOMIZED VETERANS GROUP | $33,000 |
| NASHVILLE BALLET | $25,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA BOUNDLESS CAMPAIGN | $25,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION | $25,000 |
| REDEMPTION ROAD RESCUE | $14,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE ZOO | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ANNUAL FUND | $6,500 |
| LITTLETON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| TRINITY HOPE | $3,200 |
| CROSSROADS CAMPUS | $3,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF MEMPHIS | $3,000 |
| THE GREATER MEMPHIS GREENLINE - GMC | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NBNASHVILLE BALLET7× · 2018–2024 · $281k · revenue +32%
- CICHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION5× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +98%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC2× · 2022–2023 · $83k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- PVPROJECT VERITASone grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +158%
- CFCOMMUNITY FUND OF MIDDLE TENNESSEEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MOMONC OPERA FUNone grant, 2020 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…
Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.
Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.
Nashville Wine Auction engages local and world wine communities to produce wine related events which raise money to fight cancer.
The mission of the NCVB is to maximize the economic contribution of the hospitality industry to the total community by developing and marketing Nashville as a premier domestic and international destination for visitors. This is the second…
To create a safer nashville through initiatives that engage our community, businesses, and nonprofits to prevent crime, introduce innovation and best practices, and help build the best police department in the nation.
Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Customized Veterans Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds Redemption Road Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Aura Home Women Vets ↗
- Who funds Customized Veterans Group ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Littleton Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Pine Haven Foundation Trust Attn Kevin Crumbo · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Vanderbilt University · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Crittenden Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.